please be careful!!!

Today I busted the eye out of a three quarter dual carrier tennex dead eye rigging sling negative blocking the crown out of a really big red oak tied with a timber hitch. check your rigging. it was an older sling but still felt new the cycles to failure were obviously over the limit for the sling. no one was hurt, only lawn, two concrete bed borders, and one hydrangea bush were damaged (around $300). green ground guy locked up the grcs with the aluminum bollard on in a cut in mount. according to my math the piece weighed around 2800ish the kit should have held. my new rule is new fiber rigging and new rigging ropes on all manual tree removals over 5'dbh.
 
What is this, the BS thread?

The piece Ken Johnson tried to catch that blew his GRCS into pieces weighed less than 1k lbs.

And you expect us to believe you tried to catch a top weighing twice that?

jomoco
 
Thanks for posting that vid Urban, my bad.

It's been a few years since I watched it, obviously!

What a crew!

jomoco
 
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Thanks for posting that vid Urban, my bad.

It's been a few years since I watched it, obviously!

What a crew!

jomoco

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No problem
 
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I guess I'm a wuss, cuz I've never knowingly tried to catch any log over 1K lbs.

jomoco

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I don't think it makes you a wuss. In reality, your playing it smart. Less stress on the equipment, longer life span of equipment, easier on the ground crew.... just to name a few.
 
It was the last portion of crown where all the leaders come into on piece. the log was only four foot long around 50" dia at the top and 40" at the bottom. I know i was just being really crazy :-P
 
Thanks for posting that video Jeremy. That was crazy!
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There is a limit to what our tools can take. Day after day of chucking down trunks some times causes me to take bigger pieces than I know should.
 
"It was the last portion of crown where all the leaders come into on piece. the log was only four foot long around 50" dia at the top and 40" at the bottom. I know i was just being really crazy :-P"



Being crazy???

Being lazy is more like it.
 
Well i don't call that lazy; so if you know how to butt tie a two foot cookie that weighs just under 1500lbs and get it off the cut without the risk of it falling out of the rigging then please share and don't be a jerk.
 
hell trying to tie that piece after under mining the cg of the log is a challenge as it takes about twenty five feet of rope to even tie the darn thing up! i thought about cutting notches in the side but would have had to notch the whole darn piece as all the leaders sloped down into the main trunk also thought of boring through and tying the thing through the middle of it. thought about cutting it in half and hanging one side off the other but didn't like the idea of the sharp edges it was also a really strange place to try and position and make a bore cut. In retrospect I would have just cut it into cookies and slid them off onto a crash pad. I had a retaining wall next to the tree, a brick patio, a rock garden, a fence, and a planter so no drop zone. any ideas? cause i will store them into the mental tool box and keep them for a later date.
 
oh and dbh on the tree was around 70". the height at the point of the rigging failure 35'ish so anything over 200lbs hitting the crash/landing pad with authority and was in danger of breaking up the patio. the pad consisted of a layer of doubled 3/4" plywood a layer of used tires and another layer of doubled 3/4" plywood. the bigger the pieces the harder they bounced so we quit using it.
 
this was a tough job my closest competitor put $15000 on the tree with new sod in the back yard we put $9600 and no sod. we went over schedule 3 days in retrospect i would have put $12000 on it. but we did ok so you live and learn.
 
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